Felix Culpa Who brings us pardon makes his presence shine even through the darkest act once done. Thus speaks the Grecian Urn where rape and sacred slaughter, all our constant sins and madness, all our fragile wounds and failings shudder into dance and lover’s song. So sings the Grecian Urn, to shape Perfection’s pastoral Beauty’s ever-growing plenum. Felix culpa! Jeremy Nelson Ideology Righteous pistols preach to kneeling skulls. Jeremy Nelson
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